Top Stories

• Mercy! Gollie! It’s Kate DiCamillo!

  Seattle’s Child interviews the award-winning, best-selling children’s author.

• Celebrity Story Time Raises Money to Provide Books for Kids in Need

  An eclectic group, including a chef, break dancer and athletes from the Seattle Sounders, Husky Football and Rat City Roller Girls teams, read aloud the first books they remember falling in love with.

• A Parent’s Review: Lewis Creek Park Story Time

  Hidden in the hills of Bellevue, the Lewis Creek Visitor Center puts on a gem of a story hour and craft time the first Friday of each month, which opens kids’ eyes to the wonders of nature.

• The Essential Homebirth Guide

  This new guide covers everything you need to know – and ask – if you are considering delivering your baby at home. Check out our book review and chat with the local authors.

• What a Parent Should Know about Poop

  An interview with author and clinical child psychologist Dr. Tom DuHamel.

• Spring Clean Out: Stuff

  Develop a "stuff management" plan to wrestle control of your floor and closet space, and enjoy the release from clutter.

• Toys Turn Green in Phinneywood

  The new 99 Monkeys store fills its space with reasonably priced, new-to-you toys that are saved from landfill and repackaged using 100 percent compostable materials.

• Strengthening Our Resolve

  Seattle's Child blogger Kimberly Christensen offers ideas on New Year's resolution making to help the members of your family grow.

• Editor’s Note: January 2013

  If we are lucky, January will be that most blessed of things – ordinary.